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Just so sorry, so very sorry. A wee bit stunned and can't think - even though I know that there really are no words. Sending prayers from my neck of the woods and hugs to all. May the Lord give you His grace and His comfort.

Oh Joann, Prayers to you and your husband and the whole family. I'm so sorry for your loss.

When my mom passed away last year we had this poem printed on her prayer cards:

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and the sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" "Gone where?" Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in the mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!" And that is dying. Henry Van Dyke

Oh Joann... so sorry, my friend, so very sorry. Find it in your heart to be extra sweet to your husband and to yourself. It's a hard road ahead, as you well know. Find brightness wherever you can. Immerse yourself in love. Remember him with all your heart.oxoxoxo

Oh Miss Joann! I am so sorry that I missed this news, I have been a bit MIA on the blogs this week. I am sorry for the loss of your father in law. It sounds like he had a rich and full life and that is the best that any of us can hope for. Know that we are each praying for your peace in this time of sadness. And this is precisely why I always say, "Every day may not be good but there is something good in every day." Find your 'something good' and celebrate it.Enjoy the day.xoxErin